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Navam Kaul and Malaika Chitre, 24-year-old close friends from Rutgers University, were killed when a New York City subway train struck them on the tracks at Canal Street station around 3:15 am on Sunday. Videos showed the pair sitting calmly together just before the accident. Police are investigating whether alcohol or drugs may have impaired their judgment, though social media initially speculated about a suicide pact. Chitre had recently started her doctoral studies and worked in quality operations for Acadia Pharmaceuticals, while Kaul was employed as a financial data analyst at Bloomberg.
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Two young New Yorkers killed by a speeding train as they sat calmly on the subway tracks were longtime college friends.
Navam Kaul and Malaika Chitre, both 24, died instantly when a Number 4 train ran over them about 3.15am on Sunday.
Horrified passengers filmed the pair sitting together on the tracks, appearing to be holding each other at Canal Street station in lower Manhattan.
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pair → see → Manhattan
Speculation that they were a couple who died in a suicide pact flooded social media, but police believe Chitre was just trying to save her friend.
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Chitre → die → friend
Chitre was a quality operations specialist at Acadia Pharmaceuticals in Princeton, New Jersey, after graduating from Rutgers in 2024.
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Chitre → graduate → 2024
The promising young woman had just started a doctorate of pharmacy at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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woman → start → Philadelphia
Chitre's social media profiles showed her attending a Tame Impala concert and traveling in Italy with friends in the months before her death.
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her → show → death
Malaika Chitre, 24, was a quality operations specialist at Acadia Pharmaceuticals in Princeton, New Jersey, after graduating from Rutgers in 2024
Navam Kaul, 24, worked as a financial data analyst at Bloomberg in NYC for the past year and a half and grew up in Sayreville, New Jersey
Both were killed when a Number 4 train ran over them at Canal Street station in lower Manhattan about 3.15am on Sunday.
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train → graduate → Sunday
Video showed them sitting calmly on the tracks
Kaul had a similarly successful resume after attending Rutgers at the same time as the woman who is believed to have died trying to save his life.
He worked as a financial data analyst at Bloomberg in NYC for the past year and a half and grew up in Sayreville, New Jersey, where his parents moved from Nepal about 30 years ago.
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parents → show → Nepal
The pair met at Rutgers, where they moved in the same social circles despite studying different majors, and became close friends.
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they → meet → majors
Police said they were investigating whether either Kaul or Chitre was impaired by drugs or alcohol, which could have caused them to be unaware of the danger.
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them → say → danger
Kaul is believed to have either fallen or clambered onto the tracks, prompting Chitre to go after him, police sources told the New York Post.
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sources → believe → Post
Chitre appeared to be trying to pull Kaul towards her in the moments before their deaths, the sources said, possibly in a failed effort to get him out of the way.
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sources → appear → way
Investigators have not ruled out that one or both were trying to take their own life but said a suicide note had not been found.
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note → rule → life
Why the video showed them sitting calmly in the path of the train is unclear.
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them → show → train
The train driver attempted to apply the emergency brakes, but it was too late and the train struck both the man and the woman.
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train → attempt → man
Chitre's social media profiles showed her attending a Tame Impala concert and traveling in Italy with friends in the months before her death
Chitre appeared to be trying to pull Kaul towards her in the moments before their deaths, the sources said, possibly in a failed effort to get him out of the way
Kaul is believed to have either fallen on clambered onto the tracks, prompting Chitre to go after him
Navam and Chitre died just a week after a Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker was killed by a train while working on the tracks.
Moet McCullum, a 41-year-old construction-flagger from Brooklyn, was on the southbound side of Yankee Stadium station about 11.30pm on September 3 when she was fatally struck.
She had been preparing to set up lights on the tracks to alert oncoming drivers to the presence of a work crew, but the operator of the D Train did not report seeing any lights and continued down the tracks at normal speed.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating her death alongside a separate probe by union officials and New York City Transit's Office of System Safety.
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Board → show → Safety
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